Who is the Strongest Chess Player?

Who is the strongest chess player in the world?We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger.But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating for October, 2008, there are four other chess players rated higher than these two players.The highest ranked player is Veselin Topalov (2791), followed by Alexander Morozevich (2787), Vassily Ivanchuk (2786), and Magnus Carlsen (2786).Anand is rated at 2783 and Kramnik is rated at 2772.

Over the years, Garry Kasparov has been ranked #1 on the official FIDE rating list 23 times.

The Bratko and Guid method of strongest player was calculated using computers and the best chess programs to look at the quality of play, regardless of game score.The top world champion that showed the lowest average error was Capablanca, followed by Kramnik, Karpov, Kasparov, Spassky, Petrosian, Lasker, Fischer, Alekhine, Smyslov, Tal, Botvinnik, Euwe, and Steinitz.The top world champion that had the lowest percentage of blunders was Capablanca, followed by Petrosian, Karpov, Kramnik, Smyslov, Kasparov, Spassky, Alekhine, Lasker, Fischer, Tal, Botvinnik, Euwe, and Steinitz.The world champion that best performed when facing complex postions was Kramnik, followed by Capablanca, Karpov, Kasparov, Petrosian, Fischer, Lasker, Alekhine, Spassky, Smyslov, Tal, Botvinnik, Euwe, and Steinitz.The world champion that played the best moves was Fischer, followed by Euwe, Kramnik, Alekhine, Kasparov, Lasker, Steinitz, Karpov, Tal, Spassky, Botvinnik, Petrosian, and Steinitz.

In 1978, Arpad Elo listed his top players over the best five-year span of their career.The top players were Capablanca (2725), Botvinnik and Lasker (2720), Tal (2700), and Alekhine, Morphy, and Smyslov (2690).

In 1989, Keene and Divinksy ranked the top players when considering games between the top 64 players in the world. The top players were Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Lasker, Korchnoi, Spassky, Smyslov, and Petrosian.

In 2008, after Fischer’s death, Anand ranked Kasparov as the strongest player ever, followed by Fischer.

Comments

All chess players mentioned here are great.Personally,I love Anatoly Karpov beacause he considered chess as Art+Science+Sport.In my opinion,the strongest chess player in the history is who capable of acquiring new information and new tactics quickly and whose positional development is extremely obvious..Thanks

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